Did it work? I don't know, but I certainly still dress like I just rolled around in a dumpster full of belts - Image: EA The Urbz was the Sims trying to be 'cool'. I have learned in the years intervening that almost everyone - at least, in my friend group - has that one spin-off Sims game that they have fond memories of, and also nightmares about, so at least I'm not alone. I haven't played too many, because the quality differs vastly from game to game, but I did play an awful lot of The Sims: Bustin' Out on Game Boy Advance. This is not so with Maxis and EA's console-based Sims entries, which often stick more rigidly to a pre-determined story, and are completely wackadoo. Sometimes you'll get alien pregnancies and vampire invasions, and a few of the expansion packs explicitly add supernatural goings-on, but it's also perfectly possible to live a quiet life in a cottage on the outskirts of town and avoid all the kooky stuff, instead having a totally normal existence where your children have uncomplicated origins and everyone dies of old age. Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Watch on YouTube 'Relatively normal', emphasis on the 'relatively' - Image: EAīut the mainstream PC games, The Sims 1-4, are relatively normal, all things told.
